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Sargon opens door to trustee tech

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
Sargon has announced its full-stack trustee technology will launch as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering for superannuation trustees in Australia and New Zealand. The financial technology and infrastructure company said its Sargon Trustee Cloud ...

Fee cuts at super fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
A retail superannuation fund has dropped the investment fees on three options by 10 bps to 19 bps, with its chair saying the cuts will help it be more competitive. Australian Ethical will now charge 40 basis points instead of the prior 50 bps per year ...

Chief economist update: Chinese green shoots?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
It might be a mere 0.2 point above the line but it was indication enough that China's manufacturing sector has stopped contracting. The official National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) China manufacturing PMI increased to a reading of 50.2 in November ...

Planners heed SMSF risk warning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
Are you effectively communicating the importance of diversification to your SMSF clients? Delegates have been warned how to avoid triggering the ATOs radar. Aaron Dunn, who is the chief executive of Smarter SMSF, has provided an update on SMSF regulation ...

AFCA reveals approach to Code of Ethics compliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
The Australian Financial Conduct Authority has outlined its approach to assessing financial planner conduct in relation to the Code of Ethics. Speaking at the FPA Congress, AFCA deputy chief ombudsman June Smith said the body will take a measured and ...

Chief economist update: Lower rates still fail to animate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
Uh-oh...we might be getting in trouble now. Not only are Australian households not lifting their spending despite the drop in the official cash rate to a record low 0.75% but it's looking a lot like businesses aren't too. The Australian Bureau ...

How it can all go wrong

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
In the most-talked about session on the FPA Congress program, former Queensland adviser James Cribb sat down with his lawyer Rhett Das to explain how he came to be banned and what he wishes he'd done differently. In July last year, Cribb was banned ...

Regulators quash remuneration rumours

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
The Code of Ethics does not seek to ban particular forms of remuneration nor does it say that any forms of remuneration are specifically a conflict, FASEA chief executive Stephen Glenfield told the FPA Congress. Appearing as part of a regulatory update ...

How much a self-licensee spends on compliance

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
A Melbourne-based self-licensed financial planner has shared how much her practice spends on compliance for every $100 of its revenue. Speaking at the FPA Congress, Angela Martyn of Personal Financial Services said $4.50 for every $100 of revenue is ...

AFSLs show widespread non-compliance: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
AFS licensees are consistently failing to provide correct information about advice fees to clients and are potentially still charging fees long after ongoing fee arrangements have been terminated, ASIC has found. The report, Compliance with fee disclosure ...